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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 449 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHOEBE , in See also:

astronomy, the ninth See also:satellite of See also:Saturn in See also:order of See also:discovery, or the tenth and outermost now known in XXI. 15 the order of distance. It was discovered by W. H. See also:Pickering in 1899 by photographs of the stars surrounding Saturn. It is remarkable in that its See also:motion around the See also:planet is See also:retrograde.

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